1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iraq
Compare this sourced profile of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Sulaymaniyah—878,146, Asia/Baghdad, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Iraq.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sulaymaniyah is GeoNames ID 98463. Its recorded administrative path is Qada' as Sulaymaniyah → Sulaymaniyah → Iraq, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Sulaymaniyah occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-12-28; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Sulaymaniyah ranks 633 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Iraq entries it ranks 9; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 126. Its 878,146 population value is 0.72 times the 1,211,849 median for the country cohort and 0.97 times the 902,588 regional median. Sulaymaniyah sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Iraq entries. Sulaymaniyah's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Sulaymaniyah's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kirkuk at 94.803 km with 1,031,000 recorded people; Erbil at 145.932 km with 1,612,700 recorded people; Kermanshah at 203.651 km with 621,100 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 108.848 km. Compared with Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah's recorded population is 0.85 times as large. Against Sulaymaniyah, Kirkuk follows Kirkuk District → Kirkuk → Iraq in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Sulaymaniyah's. Against Sulaymaniyah, Erbil follows Arbil → Erbil → Iraq in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Sulaymaniyah's. Against Sulaymaniyah, Kermanshah follows Kermanshah Province → Iran in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Iran cohort rather than Iraq, uses Asia/Tehran instead of Asia/Baghdad, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Sulaymaniyah's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 677 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sulaymaniyah's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 98463, the coordinate pair 35.5650 / 45.4329, country rank 9 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 94787 at 94.803 km bind Sulaymaniyah to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sulaymaniyah's reference point is 35.5650° north and 45.4329° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Baghdad is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Sulaymaniyah's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sulaymaniyah's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sulaymaniyah's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sulaymaniyah, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Sulaymaniyah's closest other entries in this atlas are Kirkuk (94.803 km), Erbil (145.932 km), Kermanshah (203.651 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-28; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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